NYT Obituaries
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A portrait gallery of people who shaped the world.
Jean-Pierre Azéma, a historian who became a leading chronicler of France’s dark days of wartime compromise, helping lead a shift in attitude about that period though he himself was the son of a notorious collaborator with the Nazis, has died at 87. nyti.ms/3GTKFzC
Robert W. Fuller, who championed dignity over the evils of what he called “rankism” — and whose philosophy was that everybody is a somebody — has died at 88. nyti.ms/3IN7d5C
Patrick Ryan, defrocked priest who abetted Irish Republican Army’s bombings, dies at 94: nyti.ms/4lPBNdw
Rex White, the oldest surviving NASCAR champion, who grew up in the rural Southeast where souped-up cars loaded with illegal moonshine were part of the stock-car racing circuit’s origin story, has died at 95. nyti.ms/4kSKDpv
Cleo Laine, one of England’s most acclaimed jazz singers and an actress who had a memorable Broadway turn as the proprietor of a London opium den in “The Mystery of Edwin Drood,” has died at 97. nyti.ms/4mcNdI2
Gary Smith was an Emmy Award-winning master of the TV special. He produced programs starring Barbara Streisand and Mikhail Baryshnikov; Democratic National Conventions; Tony and Emmy Awards shows; and the 1960s musical variety show “Hullabaloo.” nyti.ms/45lASvt
Jack McAuliffe, who in 1976 started the New Albion Brewing Co., which inspired thousands of craft brewers to follow in his footsteps, has died at 80. nyti.ms/3IIrSrz
Ozzy Osbourne, who helped invent heavy metal as the lead singer of Black Sabbath, has died at 76. nyti.ms/3GZcGWv
Jewel Thais-Williams, who turned her Los Angeles night club, Catch One, into a glittering sanctuary for the Black L.G.B.T.Q. community, persevering through police raids, pushback from local bigots and a devastating fire, has died at 86. nyti.ms/45iT7l8
Bill Clay, Missouri’s first Black congressman, was a co-founder of the Congressional Black Caucus and an uncompromising advocate for the poor. He has died at 94. nyti.ms/46wOIfL
Sarah Morlok Cotton, the last surviving member of a set of identical quadruplets who charmed Depression-era America as child performers and then took part in a landmark psychological study after being diagnosed with schizophrenia, has died at 95. nyti.ms/45a4GKn
Thomas Anthony Durkin, a Chicago criminal defense lawyer who relished skewering the U.S. government as he represented unpopular defendants in national security, public corruption and civil liberties cases, has died at 78. nyti.ms/44Y9v9l
Roger Norrington, the English conductor who became a star of the historically informed performance movement by provocatively applying scholarly research to a broad expanse of the symphonic repertoire, has died at 91. nyti.ms/4kUfa6c
Eileen Fulton, who enthralled and infuriated daytime audiences for half a century as Lisa Miller, the flashy vixen of the CBS soap opera “As the World Turns,” has died at 91. nyti.ms/4lMYXRO
With books and workshops, Joanna Macy helped others deal with the stress caused by climate change, inspiring them to take action instead of being paralyzed by despair. She has died at 96. nyti.ms/3IJ6Vg6
Ozzy Osbourne, who helped invent heavy metal as the lead singer of Black Sabbath, has died at 76. nyti.ms/3Usyg8L
Malcolm-Jamal Warner, the actor who rose to fame as a teenager playing Theo Huxtable on “The Cosby Show” in the mid-1980s, has died at 54. nyti.ms/3Us5Mfk
From her 1962 debut in Wagner’s “Die Walkure” to her final performances, 30 years later, in Falla’s “El Amor Brujo,” Gilda Cruz-Romo was celebrated for a big voice that was also capable of singing quite softly. nyti.ms/3GERQvy
Zelig Eshhar was an Israeli immunologist whose research in the 1980s and ’90s had a critical impact on immunotherapy that attacks certain cancers. nyti.ms/453gy0M
Wearing his signature fedora and playing a fugel horn, Chuck Mangione won wide popularity and 14 Grammy nominations, winning twice, for his “smooth jazz” recordings in the 1970s. He has died at 84. nyti.ms/4f6dCEU